James O’Keefe, Dr. Tom Jones, Ed Gillespie, Larry Kudlow and guest host Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer joined WMAL on Tuesday!

Mornings on the Mall

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C RIP EUGENE CERNAN. Are you disappointed we didn’t go back more to the moon and do more with the space program?

• Eugene Cernan, Last Human to Walk on Moon, Dies at 82. Eugene A. Cernan, the commander of the Apollo 17 lunar-landing mission in 1972 and the last human to walk on the moon, died on Monday in Houston. He was 82.

5am – D         CIA’s Brennan spars with Trump over Russia intel. Bob Woodward calls it a “garbage document.”

5am – E         James O’Keefe New Video: Video Shows Left-Wing Activists Plotting To Use Butyric Acid At Trump Event.

6am – A/B     INAUGURATION TALKER – ARE YOU GOING? IF SO, WHY? IF NOT, WHY NOT?

6am – C         Clinton Global Initiative to lay off employees, shut down amid dwindling donations. (Fox News) — The Clintons are moving ahead with plans to downsize their controversial foundation’s network of offshoots, a decision carried out as the powerful family’s political influence wanes and its once-lengthy donor list shrinks. In a decision announced last week, 22 additional employees are being laid off from the Clinton Global Initiative – known for its annual glitzy gathering of high-powered leaders and celebs. The layoffs are tied to a decision to shutter CGI that originally was announced in an Aug. 22 letter from former President Bill Clinton. At the time, the Clintons were under pressure to explain how they would handle potential conflicts of interest with their namesake foundation if Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton were to win the White House.

6am – D/E     Proposed minimum wage hike in Montgomery Co. on shaky ground. WASHINGTON — A proposal to raise the minimum wage in Montgomery County, Maryland, to $15 an hour by 2020 faces an uncertain future as the county council prepares to take up the legislation during a meeting Tuesday. The bill has enough votes to pass, but Montgomery County Executive Isiah “Ike” Leggett has indicated he may veto the measure if it is approved. The Washington Post reports five council members are in favor of the bill, while four others are hoping to delay a vote and instead study the effects of recent minimum wage hikes in the county as well as possible effects of further increases.  Five council members would be enough to pass the legislation, but supporters would need six votes to override a veto.

6am – F         President Obama will fly to Palm Springs on Friday after Trump inauguration. The Obamas start to leave the White House to make way for Trump: Moving vans arrive at $4.3m DC mansion where the family will live -but they’ll jet out of the inauguration for sunny Palm Springs first. (Daily Mail) — Vice President Biden and his wife Jill meanwhile will depart DC on Friday for Delaware on Amtrak.  President Obama will be jetting out of Washington DC immediately after Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday and heading to a much warmer climate. It has been revealed that for his first vacation after he leaves the White House, Obama and his wife Michelle along with their two daughters Malia and Sasha will be heading to sunny Palm Springs, California. TMZ reports that the family will board a helicopter after leaving the Capitol on Friday which will take them to Andrews Air Force Base, where they will board a government plane for the trip out west. It will only be a one-way flight however, with the Obamas having to pay for their own tickets home at the end of the trip.

7am – A         INTERVIEW — JAMES O’KEEFE – investigative journalist and filmmaker at Project Veritas and author of “Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy”

• Video Shows Left-Wing Activists Plotting To Use Butyric Acid At Trump Event.
• Anti-Trump Protesters Recorded In O’Keefe Video Say They Knew It All Along.
• O’Keefe dismissed the DisruptJ20’s statement saying in a statement of his own, “This isn’t a joke — [DisruptJ20] met with a Project Veritas investigator to give ‘him false information about what they felt was the most humorous red herring available: a false plot to use stink bombs at an event called the Deploraball.’”

7am – B/C     INTERVIEW – DR. TOM JONES – former NASA astronaut, author of Skywalking and co-author of “Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System.”

• Eugene Cernan, Last Human to Walk on Moon, Dies at 82. Eugene A. Cernan, the commander of the Apollo 17 lunar-landing mission in 1972 and the last human to walk on the moon, died on Monday in Houston. He was 82.

7am – D         John Lewis Controversy:

• John Lewis Boycotted George W. Bush’s First Inauguration Too, And He Gave The Same Reason. But this isn’t the first time Lewis has boycotted a presidential inauguration. According to a Washington Post article written on January 21, 2001, Lewis and other members of the Black Caucus boycotted George W. Bush’s inauguration because they didn’t “believe Bush is the true elected president.” Lewis spent the day in his Atlanta district.
• At Least 38 Democratic Congress Members Plan to Skip the Inauguration. At least 38 Democratic members of Congress have announced they will skip Donald Trump’s Friday inauguration. While some made their decision in previous weeks, several more have now come forward, citing the president-elect’s perceived insult of Rep. John Lewis as the final straw. Trump lashed out at the civil rights icon after Lewis said he didn’t view Trump as “a legitimate president.” Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who protested alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., also said he would not attend the inauguration.
• Donald Trump PRAYED with Martin Luther King’s son. Donald Trump PRAYS with Martin Luther King’s son to ‘heal the nation’: President-elect makes peace move after spat with civil rights icon John Lewis.     President-elect Donald Trump met with the son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in New York on Monday.  The two men were to discuss ‘ways that we can continue to enfranchise people’ according to Trump’s transition. President-elect Donald Trump prayed with the son of Martin Luther King Jr. at Trump Tower Monday, just days after the president-elect went after civil rights icon John Lewis on Twitter as someone who was ‘all talk.’ Trump ‘prayed with Martin Luther King III & discussed the legacy & work of his father #martinlutherkingday #MLKDAY’ tweeted incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicier Monday afternoon. Spicer included a photograph of Trump flashing a ‘thumbs up’ and posing next to King in front of a wall of grip-and-grin photos inside Trump’s Trump Tower office. Included on Trump’s ‘me wall’ are photos of him with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Ronald Reagan, and a 1990 copy of Playboy Magazine with Trump on the cover. A source who was at the meeting said it had opened with a prayer about ‘healing the nation’, the Washington Post reported.

7am – E         Terrorism News:

• FBI arrests wife of Orlando nightclub massacre gunman Omar Mateen. The FBI on Monday arrested the wife of the gunman in the Pulse Nightclub massacre on charges connected to the shooting rampage, investigators confirmed to Fox News.  The June 2016 shooting, seen as the deadliest in modern U.S. history, killed 49 people and wounded dozens more. Police shot and killed gunman Omar Mateen after a three-hour standoff, during which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group. The charges against his wife, 30-year-old Noor Salman, included aiding and abetting his attempts to support ISIS, as well as obstruction of justice. According to a source close to the investigation, the U.S. Attorney in Florida and attorneys within the Dept. of Justice, the agencies, which jointly prosecute terrorism cases, wanted to charge Salman with directly supporting ISIS, in addition to aiding the terror network through her husband. However, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord refused to support additional charges.  FBI agents from the bureau’s San Francisco field office picked up Salman outside her home in Rodeo, Calif., law enforcement sources said. She did not resist the arrest.
• Turkey says New Year’s nightclub attacker captured in Istanbul. Turkish police have captured the gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day at a hideout in an outlying suburb of the city after a two-week manhunt, officials said on Tuesday. Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin named the man as Abdulgadir Masharipov and said he was born in 1983 in Uzbekistan and received training in Afghanistan. Masharipov, who was captured with four others overnight, had admitted his guilt and his fingerprints matched those at the scene, Sahin said. “He knew four languages and was well-educated,” Sahin told a news conference. There were strong indications he entered Turkey illegally through its eastern borders in January 2016 and it was clear the attack was carried out on behalf of Islamic State, Sahin said. The jihadist group claimed responsibility a day after the mass shooting, saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.

8am – A         INTERVIEW — ED GILLESPIE — 2017 Republican candidate for Virginia governor

• Gillespie kicked off his campaign last Saturday with five stops across the Commonwealth.

8am – B       CONFIRMATION HEARINGS:

• Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) and Betsy DeVos, Trump’s picks for Interior and Education, respectively, will both get hearings on Tuesday. Meanwhile, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, tapped to lead the Department of Energy, and Steve Mnuchin, his pick for Treasury, will get hearings on Thursday. The confirmation schedule will come to a head on Wednesday with hearings for Wilbur Ross, Trump’s Commerce secretary; Tom Price, his Health and Human Services pick; Scott Pruitt, who has been tapped to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); and Nikki Haley, named to be U.N. ambassador. Each of the hearings is scheduled to start at 10 a.m.

• McCain leans toward voting for Tillerson. Sen. John McCain told Fox New’s Martha MacCallum that he’s leaning toward voting to confirm Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the State Department . “Some of my concerns have been satisfied, [but] I haven’t made up my mind completely,” McCain said. He’s previously voiced concerns about Trump’s selection of the former ExxonMobil CEO and has been critical of Tillerson’s ties to Russia and his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• Mayor leaves golf club as members try to block Obama’s entry. (NY Post) – The controversy at an exclusive Maryland country club over whether to allow President Obama to join took a new turn when a member resigned Monday. Jeffrey Slavin, a local mayor, dropped his membership on Martin Luther King Jr. Day because of the controversy, saying he could “no longer belong to a community” with such “intolerance.” “I can no longer belong to a community,” Slavin wrote in an email to the general manager of the club. “Where Intolerance is accepted, Where History is forgotten, Where Freedom of Speech is denied, And where the nation’s first black president is disrespected,” said Slavin, the mayor of Somerset, Maryland. Slavin thanked the club for “many great memories” and signed his email, “Stay Woke.”

8am –C          Somerset Mayor Quits Woodmont Country Club over Obama Membership Flap. Somerset Mayor Jeffrey Slavin resigned Monday from the Woodmont Country Club in Rockville because of a controversy over whether the mostly Jewish club would allow President Barack Obama to join.According to his resignation letter, he chose Monday because it is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. “I can no longer belong to a community: where Intolerance is accepted, where History is forgotten, where Freedom of Speech is denied, and where the nation’s first black president is disrespected,” Slavin wrote. On Thursday, Slavin announced he would resign if the club didn’t invite Obama to join. News reports have said the president’s possible membership has generated controversy because members objected to the United States’ recent refusal to block an anti-Israel vote in the United Nations.

8am – D         INTERVIEW —  LARRY KUDLOW – CNBC Senior Contributor and host of The Larry Kudlow Show on WMAL Saturdays at 7 pm

8am – E         O’Keefe Video:

• Video Shows Left-Wing Activists Plotting To Use Butyric Acid At Trump Event
• Anti-Trump Protesters Recorded In O’Keefe Video Say They Knew It All Along.
• O’Keefe dismissed the DisruptJ20’s statement saying in a statement of his own, “This isn’t a joke — [DisruptJ20] met with a Project Veritas investigator to give ‘him false information about what they felt was the most humorous red herring available: a false plot to use stink bombs at an event called the Deploraball.’” O’Keefe continued, “The group even admitted that they had already purchased tickets to the Deploraball. It’s rare that you run into people that are simply flat out liars, but the organizers of DisruptJ20 fall into that category and laughably so.” He added, “Their plot is stopped and now they’re facing criminal scrutiny — as they should be. They’re on the run, and I say we keep them on the run by calling in some ground support.”